*If UMass makes the quarterfinals, the game will be televised on Comcast SportsNet.

AMHERST – University of Massachusetts forward Terrell Vinson isn’t wasting time worrying about matchups now that the Atlantic 10 Championship field is set.

Instead, Vinson says, the Minutemen are focused on execution.

“There’s no point in sitting around, worrying. We’ve played every team in the conference. We pretty much know their identities and what they’re going to do,” Vinson said. “It’s pretty much going out there and executing.”

The first task for the sixth-seeded Minutemen will be solving an 11th-seeded George Washington squad that ruined Marcus Camby Day at the Mullins Center by handing UMass a 79-76 defeat.

A win in Thursday's first round sets UMass up Friday against another team that won in Amherst, third-seeded Temple.

Despite the regular-season result against their tournament draw, Vinson said the Minutemen are confident they can correct the mistakes that cost them earlier.

“Pretty much the only team I really felt that beat us this year was Saint Louis … That was the only game I felt like we really lost,” Vinson said. “Every other game we lost (was) one or two points here, a couple of things you can clean up on film, and we could have won some of those games.”

“We’ve won some tough games, lost some tough games, and you’re talking about 10 teams that are in the Top 100 of the RPI and whatnot (in the conference),” Kellogg said. “Nine and seven is not bad. It’s a good season for us.”

As far as what lies beyond this week’s tournament, the projections vary wildly.

For Kellogg, it’s just more reason to focus on what’s on the court instead of off it.

“We’re still all over the board. Some guys have us close, other people don’t even know where we are,” Kellogg said. “I’m coaching, we’re going to try and play as well as we can, and when the season ends, the tournament ends, we’re going to say, ‘OK, what’s in front of us now?’”